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Girl diagnosed with rare cancer after symptoms dismissed as growing pains

Girl diagnosed with rare cancer after symptoms dismissed as growing pains - Aubrey, now six, was eventually diagnosed with ...

'Passed off as growing pains': Early diagnosis in Ewing sarcoma is key to improving outcomes

“Ewing sarcoma is part of this bigger group of cancers called sarcoma," Eward said. "What they all have in common is they ...

‘Sassy’ Aubrey’s deadly cancer was mistaken for growing pains and measles before she vomited blood

LIKE many parents, when Madeleine Shipp’s daughter Aubrey first started complaining of leg pains, she assumed it was nothing ...

Someone You Should Know: Ultra O’Connell

Nothing alarming at first — just symptoms every kid experiences. Leg pains that came and went. Then jaw pain. A fever. What seemed like growing pains turned into something ...

5-year-old’s symptoms mistaken for growing pains and measles before she vomited blood and received rare cancer diagnosis

The mother of a five-year-old girl whose symptoms were mistaken for growing pains and measles before she vomited blood and ...

Mother issues heartbreaking plea after doctors dismissed her daughter's cancer symptoms as 'growing pains'

Mum Madeleine Shipp issued a heartbreaking plea after doctors dismissed her six-year-old daughter's cancer symptoms as 'growing pains' ...

'We just all thought it was growing pains, then she started vomiting blood'

Aubrey was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) after her symptoms were initially mistaken for growing pains ...